The Act of Killing

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Legend
OCOpen Captioned
Special Content
35mm
SFSensory Friendly
Cinema Studies

The Act of Killing

In Joshua Oppenheimer’s brilliant and chilling documentary, former leaders of Indonesian death squads are challenged to stage theatrical reenactments of the mass murders they once helped oversee. The result is an unsettling journey into the imaginations of mass-murderers and the shockingly banal regime of corruption and impunity they inhabit. Executive produced by legendary filmmakers Errol Morris and Werner Herzog and co-directed by Christine Cynn and one or more Anonymous Indonesian filmmakers, The Act of Killing shocked audiences upon its release and is remembered as a masterpiece of the new millennium.

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"Part historical document, part character portrait and part art project, The Act of Killing ultimately registers as something altogether more powerful: an exorcism."
Josh Larsen, LarsenOnFilm
"More terrifying than any horror film... The Act of Killing is a major achievement, a work about genocide that rightly earns its place alongside Shoah as a supreme testament to the cinema's capacity for inquiry, confrontation, and remembrance."
Nick Schager, Village Voice

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This film is part of the The New Classics series.



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